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Wednesday, 23 September 2026 Reading Room

Health & Medicine

Malawi: Malawi's Medicine Time Bomb - Hospitals Face Catastrophic Drug Shortage As Cmst Rack Up $18m Debt to Foreign Suppliers

[Nyasa Times] Malawi's public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country's Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) is failing to pay foreign suppliers a jaw-dropping $18 million debt.

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South Africa: Moving for Work - The Hidden Health Impacts of SA's Urban Migration

[Daily Maverick] Migration can improve livelihoods without uniformly harming health, researchers find, but urban diets, obesity and blood pressure risks highlight the need for mobile healthcare…

  • Study tracks health of 3,000 South Africans aged 18-40
  • Compares rural dwellers to urban migrants, including returnees
  • Examines impacts on medical care, diet, environment

·allafrica.com

Uganda: How Uganda Is Preparing Against the Threat of Arboviral Diseases

[Malaria Consortium] Arboviruses are viruses carried by mosquitoes and ticks and passed to people when they are bitten. Many arboviruses were first identified in East Africa, where they remain a…

  • Six arboviruses, including dengue and Zika, threaten Uganda.
  • Rapid urbanization, climate change, and population movement increase risk.
  • SUPAAT project aims to enhance surveillance, testing, and policy.

·allafrica.com

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